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CGEM at lower latitudes?

My wife and I have just been stationed in Guam. I have a CGEM and the lower limit of the mounts Lat adjustment is 15 deg. Guam is located @ approximately 13.45. I want to still be able to use the mount for astrophotography but we all can see the problem . Any suggestions?

since I live at 1.22 degrees latitude, the brick trick didn't work for me, so -

The above solution was nice, but the solid CNC machined wedge is quite heavy and it wasn't cheap to have made. So for my other mount I had a different wedge fabricated which is made from four aluminum plates bolted together.

Greeting and welcome to Guam, since polaris is not in view here. Drift align is the way to happiness. On my cgem i have the longer counter weight bar. And micrometered the marks on the lat scale and simply scibed a couple of additional( since the lat adjustment does run by the 15 degree mark this got me about 14 to 13.9 or so and i was in businness.Then i use a compass to set north Litte advice make sure your equipment is moble and able to get under cover quickly as the rains here do come rather unexpextly. otherwise the viewing here is pretty good Nice dark skies particulary on the north end of the island. zinsco1

Thanks zinsco1. Do you astrophoto here? Would love to hook up sometime. Unfortunately it looks as though we are going to be stuck south in Santa Rita, just up the hill from Big Navy, and since I plan on doing astrophoto hope it gets dark enough. Good tip on the weather. I do believe that ASPA should work, yes? Just hope that it'll all align and track well enough for photos.

Hey P-DUB yea i attempted a foray into astrophoto, thats how i got the lesson on the weather i had eyes on the laptop and equipmnt didnt notice the big nasty cloud and bamn torential downpour scambled to save equipmennt but lost my ccd / guide camera and the laptop. saved mount annd main scope. With regards to ASPA or drift align whichever you can set up faster as the power grid here is less than stellar and does drop off unexpectedly, Running a/c adapters is the only way to power all the equipment. A/C to D/C connverters nnot readily availible here and cost a small fortune to ship if they will ship. And make sure all your A/C stuff is GFI connected either by cord or outlet. Send me a PM and we can connect, i live in a great area for dark skies and have really nice nirghbors who turh off their yard lights when i have my gear set up. zinsco1